11 occurrences

'Taken' in the Bible

Can wood be taken from it to make anything, or can men take a peg from it on which to hang any vessel?

Verse ConceptsPegs

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsFraudCreditCovenant breakersExcessGreed, Condemnation OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfInterestMoney, Stewardship OfBusiness EthicsCovetousness, Results InExtortionSheddingKilling The InnocentOppressors

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesHuntingWidowsPeople Torn To PiecesLike CreaturesJudged As MurderersTaking PossessionConspiracy

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,”

Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfEternal EvilMan AvengingRevenge

“They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir;They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Verse ConceptsCedarFir TreesBoardsCedar Wood

He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life.

Verse ConceptsHearing ThingsPaying Attention To PeopleSaving Oneself

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’

Verse ConceptsBeing A WitnessResponsibility, For God's WorldAccountabilityTrumpets For SignallingWarning IndividualsResponsible To WarnResponsibility

if a wicked man restores a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the statutes which ensure life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Verse ConceptsCompensationStealingFulfilling The LawLaws About PledgesLife Through Keeping The LawDebt

Now in the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month, the refugees from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been taken.”

Verse ConceptsAttackingThe Fifth Day Of The WeekMonth 10Destruction Of JerusalemEscaping EvilDay 5

therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people.”’”

Verse ConceptsVain TalkPressingFaintnessTaking PossessionUnder One's BreathFungossiping

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodNew Year, TheGod's HandDay 10God's Hands On PeopleBeginning Of PeriodsCapturing CitiesTime Of Yearanniversary

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